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...York native and graduate of Brandeis, Gordon writes in one campaign pamphlet that he “was born an idealist, and his ideas led him to become an activist.” His campaign platform includes calls for citywide wireless internet, expanded voter rights for 17-year-olds and immigrants, and greater transparency in city governance...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Grad Runs On Platform of Civic Transparency | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...Mugane, “The whole theme of the African Studies concentration and committee…is transforming Africa through knowledge.” His sentiments reflect what many in the department see as a larger social mission. West, with his outspoken politics, was the first to bring this activist bent to AAAS. Three years since his departure, the impulse for social action continues to resonate with the department’s faculty, but it has been incorporated more subtly into the larger curriculum...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Since They Parted Ways | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...political professional, and the other as a faculty member of the University. Though she had no formal connections to the Kerry campaign, her husband, James A. Johnson, headed Kerry’s search for a running mate in the spring and early summer of 2004. A well-connected Democratic activist and businessman, Johnson formerly served as the chairman of the Brookings Institution, a prominent liberal think-tank in Washington, D.C. Though several students were contacted by The Crimson, all but one—who spoke on the condition of anonymity—refused to provide any comment on the event...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kerry Pays Hushed Visit to Campus | 11/1/2005 | See Source »

With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, ROSA PARKS was an activist and a freedom fighter who transformed a nation and confirmed a notion that ordinary people can have an extraordinary effect on the world. In her declining health, I would often visit Mrs. Parks, and once asked her the most basic question: Why did you do it? She said the inspiration for her Dignity Day in 1955 occurred three months prior, when African-American Emmett Till's murdered and disfigured body was publicly displayed for the world to see. "When I thought about Emmett Till," she told me, "I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Rosa Parks | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

Appreciation With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a freedom fighter who transformed a nation and confirmed a notion that ordinary people can have an extraordinary effect on the world. In her declining health, I would often visit Mrs. Parks, and once asked her the most basic question: Why did you do it? She said the inspiration for her Dignity Day in 1955 occurred three months prior, when African-American Emmett Till's murdered and disfigured body was publicly displayed for the world to see. "When I thought about Emmett Till," she told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

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